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Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation

Cultivating philanthropy to build better communities.

$6.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
59
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$20MRecreation & Sports$3.2MHuman Services$1.1MReligion$958kEnvironment$829kArts & Culture$545kHealth$535kYouth Development$253kOther$0
02FY2024 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 59 grants below total $4,744,506, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,302,942 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,558,436 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $157k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $464k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $862k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.3M
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$74M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY$3,000,000
MATTOON SPORTS COMPLEX INC$261,354
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY$117,462
CHARITY GLOBAL INC$100,000
THE CROSS FOUNDATION$100,000
ST ANTHONY OF PADUA CHURCH$100,000
ARTHUR CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$99,074
CITY OF NEWTON ILLINOIS$90,608
BUCKEYE FRIENDS SCHOOL$75,000
EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER$70,000
EFFINGHAM WATER AUTHORITY$60,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
EFFINGHAM CUSD UNIT 40$34,000
FOX RIVER TROLLEY MUSEUM$31,130
ILLINOIS RAILROAD MUSEUM$31,130
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $726k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $10k → 10%CHARITY GLOBAL INC: $100k → 4%ILLINOIS MIGRANT COUNCIL: $23k → 6%STOPPING WOMAN ABUSE NOW: $16k → 15%LAWRENCE COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $6k → 17%FAMILY YMCA OF FAYETTE COUNTY: $15k → 13%HOPES & DREAMS INC: $10k → 14%HOPE OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $8k → 14%STRONG BEGINNINGS EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 9%YOUTH & COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER: $8k → 14%SALEM MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE: $15k → 15%OCF - FAYETTE COUNTY CEO: $5k → 13%NOURISHING GREATNESS: $5k → 13%MATTOON AREA FAMILY YMCA: $17k → 18%MATTOON AREA FAMILY YMCA: $11k → 18%CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORP: $100k → 9%EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $70k → 9%EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $43k → 9%COLES COUNTY COUNCILE ON AGING INC: $22k → 18%EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $29k → 9%CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORP: $27k → 9%EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $20k → 9%EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERVICE: $19k → 9%FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $15k → 9%FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $11k → 9%ENDURING FREEDOM MINISTRIES INC: $11k → 9%ENDURING FREEDOM MINISTRIES: $11k → 9%FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $10k → 9%EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 9%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $10k → 9%EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 9%FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $9k → 9%FAMILY MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT: $8k → 9%FISH CHIRSTMAS STORE: $7k → 9%EFFINGHAM PERFORMANCE CENTER: $7k → 9%EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $7k → 9%EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $6k → 9%EFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN S: $6k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
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IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
MO
KY
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 57 repeat orgs$7.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
89

Total granted

$21M
$6.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+15%

Still filing today

70%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $630k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HP
    HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2024 · $13M · revenue +14%
  • TC
    THE CROSS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2024 · $450k · revenue +51% · 68% of their budget
  • FR
    FOX RIVER TROLLEY ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $207k · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    one grant, 2022 · $5.0M
  • NA
    NEWTON ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB INC
    one grant, 2023 · $490k · revenue -954%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL
    one grant, 2021 · $154k · revenue +15%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Eastern Illinois Foodbank

Eastern illinois foodbank exists to alleviate hunger in eastern illinois by providing a reliable source of food for the hungry through cooperation with a network of food pantries and agencies.

Food & Nutrition
2
Feeding Illinois

Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.

Food & Nutrition
3
Central Illinois Foodbank Inc

The Foodbank's mission is to provide food, and develop awareness of and creative solutions for food insecurity. Annually, the Foodbank distributes approximately 9.5 million pounds of food to 130 food pantries, soup kitchens, children's…

Food & Nutrition
4
Fayette County Farm Bureau

To improve the economic well being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family life.

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5
Fisher Community Fair & Horse Show

Operating an agricultural fair under the state of illinois bureau of county fairs.

Recreation & Sports
6
Illinois Agricultural Leadership Foundation

To develop knowledgeable and effective leaders to become policy and decision makers for the agricultural industry.

Public Benefit
7
Illinois Association of Future Farmers of America

FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success, developing a competent and assertive agricultural leadership, increasing the awareness of…

Youth Development
8
The Edgar County Community Foundation

To make annual distributions for charitable purposes in edgar county, il.

Philanthropy
9
Effingham County Farm Bureau

To improve the economic well-being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm families in Effingham County, IL

Food & Nutrition
10
Community Foundation of East Central Illinois

To promote philanthropy in an impartial, unbiased, ethical way, with a commitment to inclusiveness, and to bring together people and resources to identify and address present and emerging community needs.

Philanthropy
11
Illinois Valley Food Pantry

Providing food to needy families in the illinois valley area.

Food & Nutrition
12
Edwards County Farm Bureau

The Edwards County Farm Bureau was organized to support and preserve the best interests of its agricultural communities, to educate the public and to enhance framing profitability for future generations.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Effingham Cnty Inc; the most unlike its peers is Southeast Indiana Chamber Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

95 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 95 of the 166 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
95/95
Grantees still filing
63/95
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $13,117,462 · EducationHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY+5 more: $466,824 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $5,000,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLEFFINGHAM PARK DISTRICT: $1,007,450 · OtherEFFINGHAM PARK DISTRICTEFFINGHAM CUSD UNIT 40: $498,890 · OtherBuckeye Friends School: $497,700 · OtherTHE CROSS FOUNDATION: $450,000 · Other+112 more: $3,691,944 · Other+112 moreMATTOON SPORTS COMPLEX INC: $1,601,840 · Community ImprovementEMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY INC: $82,650 · Community Improvement+4 more: $77,250 · Community ImprovementEFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $195,341 · Human ServicesCEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION: $126,847 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY LIFE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC: $44,750 · Human ServicesEFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERVICES: $39,575 · Human ServicesMATTOON AREA FAMILY YMCA CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $27,500 · Human Services+16 more: $202,463 · Human ServicesSOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $644,934 · Philanthropy+2 more: $26,084 · PhilanthropyHEARTLAND HUMAN SERVICES: $198,000 · HealthCRISIS NURSERY OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY: $104,753 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $100,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $60,500 · HealthAdventHealth Foundation Inc: $25,000 · HealthST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Health+3 more: $39,000 · HealthNEWTON ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB INC: $489,601 · Recreation & SportsCRAWFORD COUNTY RECREATION CENTER: $25,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$13,584,286Other$11,145,984Community Improvement$1,761,740Human Services$736,476Philanthropy$671,018Health$547,253Recreation & Sports$519,601

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $13,117,462 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMATTOON SPORTS COMPLEX INC: $1,601,840 over 2y, 23% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $644,934 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBuckeye Friends School: $497,700 over 6y, 55% of budgetTHE CROSS FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 3y, 68% of budgetFOX RIVER TROLLEY ASSOCIATION INC: $207,037 over 6y, 23% of budgetEL SHADDAI HOMES: $203,745 over 2y, 24% of budgetMIDLAND INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP NFP: $198,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetHEARTLAND HUMAN SERVICES: $198,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetEFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $195,341 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: $154,487 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEFFINGHAM COUNTY CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $149,503 over 5y, 55% of budgetILLINOIS RAILWAY MUSEUM INC: $147,037 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION: $126,847 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCRISIS NURSERY OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY: $104,753 over 7y, 6.8% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTHUR CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $99,074 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetEMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY INC: $82,650 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $60,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMID-IL BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $57,889 over 5y, 12% of budgetCASA of Effingham County: $45,200 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetTHE FAMILY LIFE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC: $44,750 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetEFFINGHAM COUNTY FISH HUMAN SERVICES: $39,575 over 3y, 19% of budgetDIETERICH COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetALASKA MISSION FOR CHRIST: $35,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCAMP NEW HOPE INC: $34,018 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetINDIANA FFA FOUNDATION INC: $32,977 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetOHIO FFA FOUNDATION INC: $32,977 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetBALLARD FAMILY NATURE CENTER INC: $28,765 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC: $28,306 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMATTOON AREA FAMILY YMCA CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $27,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSARAH BUSH LINCOLN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $26,800 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBCMW COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAdventHealth Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Greater Salem Area Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetCRAWFORD COUNTY RECREATION CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCOLES COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $22,420 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetIllinois Foundation Future Farmers of America: $22,377 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetENDURING FREEDOM MINISTRIES INC: $21,740 over 2y, 18% of budgetNEW COVENANT ACADEMY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Resources Center of Edgar and: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS: $19,775 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT & FAMILY EMERGENCIES CENTER: $19,259 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetStopping Woman Abuse Now (SWAN): $16,450 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EFFINGHAM CNTY INC: $16,084 over 2y, 2.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MATTOON SPORTS COMPLEX INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Buckeye Friends School ↗
  • Who funds NEWTON ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CROSS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOX RIVER TROLLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EL SHADDAI HOMES ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP NFP ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND HUMAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds EFFINGHAM CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
  • Who funds EFFINGHAM COUNTY CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS RAILWAY MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds CEFS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CRISIS NURSERY OF EFFINGHAM COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTHUR CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds EMBARRAS RIVER BASIN AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CONFERENCE OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MID-IL BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Virginia C Koboldt Charitable TrustOH43.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Virginia C Koboldt Charitable Trust · United Way of Coles County Inc · The Lumpkin Family Foundation · United Way of Effingham Cnty Inc · Midland States Bank Foundation · The Sparks Foundation Trust Agreement C/O Ray a Sparks · Niebrugge Cares Foundation · Midland Area Agency on Aging · United Way of Knox County Indiana Inc · Eastern Illinois Foodbank · Silas & Ruth Claypool Foundation · The Melvin Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • National Fallen Firefighters Foundation: 24% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 166 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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